…much in the same way that the Pennsylvania Dutch were originally the Pennsylvania Deutsch.

It's in The Fry Chronicles, I seem to recall.

According to Stephen Fry's second autobiography, it was Fry himself, not Atkinson, who caused the eye-twitch by addressing McInnerny as "Darling" so casually. Then again, successes have a hundred fathers, failures are all orphans.

*Rev. Robert Parsimony voice* Technicality no down boo over?

A day late, but nevertheless:

Wow. Out of context, that sounds filthy.

doot-doot-doo-doo, doot-doo-doo-doo…

Jon Hamm stole his essence.

I miss Nabin. You can be sure he'd have picked Weird Al's "Foil" for this list.

I'd recommend Jimmy Carr's The Naked Jape. A bit more scholarly than the review makes this book sound, but a great read nonetheless.

Well, there is no wrong answer (except for On Every Street, the title track and "Ticket To Heaven" notwithstanding). I tend to go back and forth between Making Movies and Communique, although Dire Straits share Led Zeppelin's problem - if their biggest-selling album hadn't been such a blockbuster, then naturally…

so pretty…

"What an… exciting idea."

We like movies like The Godfather, Citizen Kane…

…also, the most recent episode had a Riddle Me This in which one of the riddles was "What has four ears and no nose?", and I can't believe Scott didn't go with "a two-headed Paul Rust".

They went full meta on yesterday's commentary episode. Fantastic, if you're a fan, but best avoided by newbies.

Huh. I was sure this was going to be Train In Vain (Stand By Me).

Yeah, well, I'm fucking @Santoshjs:disqus, and what do I get? Not even a goddamn AV Club Commie award at the end of the year. *grumblegrumblegrumble*

Yes, I suppose…

I would have thought that the problem, which was identified around series D or E, would have been taken care of by now, and series F onward would use US-compliant images and hence could be shown in America. Not as brilliant as the first three series, but better than nothing. Seems like a solution to me.